Improved Alacrity/history

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January 13, 2026

  • Improved Alacrity: This trait has been removed and replaced by Time Bomb. Enemies struck by Time Sink are affixed with a time bomb. Time bombs increase your strike damage dealt to the target and explode when they expire.

June 24, 2025

Time Bomb.png

Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration.

Radius.png Recharge Speed: 50%
Radius.png Recharge Speed: 35%
Duration.png Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

January 30, 2024

Time Bomb.png

Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

Radius.png Recharge Speed: 50%
Radius.png Recharge Speed: 35%
Ferocity attribute.png Critical Damage Increase: 10%
Duration.png Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

August 02, 2022

  • Improved Alacrity: In addition to its previous effects, this trait now also increases your critical strike damage by 10% when you have alacrity. This is a multiplier to total damage dealt, not additive with critical strike damage from ferocity.
Time Bomb.png

Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

Radius.png Recharge Speed: 50%
Ferocity attribute.png Critical Damage Increase: 10%
Duration.png Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

February 06, 2018

  • Improved Alacrity: This trait now causes alacrity applied to you to improve skill-recharge speed by 50%, but it reduces the duration of incoming alacrity from all sources by 33%.
    • Alacrity applied to others is unaffected.
Time Bomb.png

Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration.

Radius.png Recharge Speed: 50%
Duration.png Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

Original version

Time Bomb.png

Improved Alacrity

Specialization
Chronomancer icon small.png Chronomancer
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Game link
Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you lasts longer.

Duration.png Duration Increase: 50%

— In-game description